What does SPIRIT stand for?
Student Projects Involving Rocket Investigation Techniques. It is a program at Penn State University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department that gives undergraduates experience in designing, building and launching rocket payloads. • What is the nature of the experiment? What will be measured? What do we expect to discover?At this time we do not know the answer to this question. When we do, those on the mailing list will be notified. • Who is sponsoring the project? SPIRIT is sponsored by NASA’s Student Launch Program (SLP), which is intended to broaden undergraduate and post graduate educational opportunities using experiments built by students and flown by NASA on suborbital sounding rockets and scientific balloons. As described by NASA: “The program, initiated in 1993, provides practical experience in all aspects of planning, building, and flying a space science experiment. The projects involve a wide variety of academic disciplines to achieve the end-to-end management, pub
